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When You Can'T Get Salad Dressing On The Side

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When you are served salad with dressing you can cut the amount of fat and salt significantly and still enjoy your side dish. Just spoon some of your water on the salad. Much of the heavy dressing will go to the bottom of the bowl. Then you'll be able to eat your veggies without all the calories you did not want! This trick works particularly well with cole slaw.

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When eating out, I ask for the dressing on the side. When my salad arrives, rather than pouring the dressing over the salad, I dip each forkful of salad into the dressing. After I've eaten the salad, I usually have dressing left in the cup. Saves calories.

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